The Retirement Thread

[Juan Kog]

Greetings, wet here and forecast to get wetter . Today’s plan is to clean and check over my steamroller ( that’s a surly not a chuff-chuff one) . On Sunday morning I discovered it had a rear wheel puncture, but it needs cleaning before I do any work on it . I have been using my On-One Pompino instead .
🤔 I wonder why Planet X called the bike a Pompino ?
@Dave7 I will leave you to Google Pompino .

 

[Dave7]

Greetings, wet here and forecast to get wetter . Today’s plan is to clean and check over my steamroller ( that’s a surly not a chuff-chuff one) . On Sunday morning I discovered it had a rear wheel puncture, but it needs cleaning before I do any work on it . I have been using my On-One Pompino instead .
🤔 I wonder why Planet X called the bike a Pompino ?
@Dave7 I will leave you to Google Pompino .

Don't need to.
I have a pompino which MrsD says is adequate

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Good Day. The forecast is shite but it seems quite benign outside.

Yesterday I felt life had returned to normal after my Covid positive. The week had been the usual blend of nothing much all the way to full throttle. All good.........

Then we got the phone call. No 2 son has tested positive. He has Downs, supported living and shares a house with three other supported young men. He seems to be perfectly well but his living situation means he must isolate - the choice is 10 days in his bedroom or come home to us. No choice here. So now we have another 7-10 days of protecting Mrs P but this time from someone who doesn't understand why he can't cuddle his Mum. Geez.

This bit isn't a rant and I mention it because I know you all to be good people. It's something which is valuable to understand.There are hundreds of thousands of individuals whose living situation is similar to my lad's. Legally their situation is exactly the same as elderly people in a care home. We've endured two years of the same restrictions. I don't think you've heard me complain. You haven't seen it on the news.

The care worker, support worker situation is precisely the same, possibly worse, than that for people who need home care etc. I say possibly because there can be mental issues involved as well.

It comes down to money. Care workers earn minimum wage. If agency staff have to be brought in to cover shifts the cost can be as high as £23/hour plus agency fees.

No one ever talks about this. It doesn't make headlines on the six o'clock news in the manner care homes do.

I have to finish by saying my lad leads a happy and fulfilled life.

Thanks.

I know I sometimes grumble about the carers but they do a good job in often difficult circumstances, my Good ladies carer was here at quarter to eight this morning apologising for being late, apparently they had someone not show up this morning so she had to cover a call in Tamworth before coming to us. A similar thing has happened several time lately with carers having to cover with people going sick or not turning up.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Greetings, wet here and forecast to get wetter . Today’s plan is to clean and check over my steamroller ( that’s a surly not a chuff-chuff one) . On Sunday morning I discovered it had a rear wheel puncture, but it needs cleaning before I do any work on it . I have been using my On-One Pompino instead .
🤔 I wonder why Planet X called the bike a Pompino ?
@Dave7 I will leave you to Google Pompino .

I googled!

 

[welsh dragon]

This morning my ensemble will consist of waterproof bloomers (to keep the rain out) I might add, flippers and a snorkel as that has its own integrated mask so it covers all eventualities and is clearly legal in the whole of the UK and a sowester belonging to Mr WD.

 

[PaulSB]

I know I sometimes grumble about the carers but they do a good job in often difficult circumstances, my Good ladies carer was here at quarter to eight this morning apologising for being late, apparently they had someone not show up this morning so she had to cover a call in Tamworth before coming to us. A similar thing has happened several time lately with carers having to cover with people going sick or not turning up.

I agree Dave the care workers, especially those employed full time, are superb, brilliant people. Many of the agency staff are good but sadly not all.

I think we both understand and directly experience the care crisis and it really does boil down to cash. Sad.

 

[Dirk]

Morning all

It's out there!
Think I'll stop in and watch a film or two.
Some movement on my dad's house sale - now showing as 'sold stc' on Rightmove. Hopefully it will all go through OK.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I agree Dave the care workers, especially those employed full time, are superb, brilliant people. Many of the agency staff are good but sadly not all.

I think we both understand and directly experience the care crisis and it really does boil down to cash. Sad.

I think with most things it come down to the cash, which is very sad.

 

[Paulus]

Good morning all, a damp drizzerly day outside, with heavier rain later. It seem to be a stay indoors kind of day, except that the dog will have to go out, and I have to cycle up to the local shops for a few essentials.
I have a couple of jigsaw to do, and there are some FA cup games on the tellybox this afternoon, so there are plenty of things to keep me occupied.
Enjoy your day everyone.

 

[Chief Broom]

Morning folks Light rain forecast here which could mean light rain or hacking down...Not much to report so heres another poem from Mervyn Peake

The Trouble With Geraniums

The trouble with geraniums
is that they’re much too red!
The trouble with my toast is that
it’s far too full of bread.

The trouble with a diamond
is that it’s much too bright.
The same applies to fish and stars
and the electric light.

The troubles with the stars I see
lies in the way they fly.
The trouble with myself is all
self-centred in the eye.

The trouble with my looking-glass
is that it shows me, me;
there’s trouble in all sorts of things
where it should never be.

 

[classic33]

Morning all, I've just put the breadmaker on.

Have you shrunk, or have you a large industrial breadmaker?

 

[welsh dragon]

We seem to have horizontal rain now

 

[Deleted member 1258]

We seem to have horizontal rain now

its been persisting down all morning here. I've spent the morning getting the ironing done

 

[welsh dragon]

We have had so much rain in the last few weeks that the grass is starting to die due to being waterlogged.

 

[Exlaser2]

Morning all .
It’s a grey damp day here in Coventry today . Mrs exlaser and I just starting to feel normal after having covid over Christmas which is good😀.

Our current inconvenience is the fact we are having a new bathroom fitted so the whole house smells of new plaster and us 😂 as we haven’t had a bath or a shower in the house since Tuesday 😂😂.
It’s been a few decades since I last had to wash my hair in the sink , makes me think we might have made the wrong decision a few years ago not having a second bathroom fitted .
Oh well ,fingers crossed we have working bath by Tuesday and it all should be finished by the next Tuesday . 😀